I shipped over a few newly recruited men and destroyed the second-to-last cannon tower. One remained, but I lacked the manpower at the moment to get rid of it immediately.
I decided I should already settle down on the island however, as I would just remove the leftovers of my enemy's settlement later on and thus already built a small harbour.
Not losing any time, I erected a marketplace (later followed by two others after I had a new ship of mine bring over a couple of resources to my new colony) to expand the territory on which I am able to build. I made sure that the radius of the buildings would also encompass the area yet to be... "liberated".
Immediately I started building a few vineyards and wheat farms. By now reinforcements had arrived from Rhenus, and at last I was able to end the rest of the red player's influence on the island, albeit with some losses.
After having gained complete control of the area I tore down the buildings that remained and has passed over to my possession, as they were of no use for me and only consumed some of the taxes I earn. I also built a few more mills and bakeries, and assigned the ship so diligently having supplied my new settlement with raw materials to now carry over the goods produced there to Rhenus. And since it also harboured a small mountain with ore in it, and iron mine was soon established which was particularly welcome as one on one of my southern islands had recently become exhausted.
Lastly, since I now had more than enough space for vineyards, I tore down two of them on Delirium to make way for two more tobacco plantations, as my people all seem to be heavy smokers. In the long run this won't be enough however, and I shall have to also wrestle the red player's remaining island to the north-east under my control to expand my cigar production towards it. But this is something that shall be undertaken at some later point in time!
I decided I should already settle down on the island however, as I would just remove the leftovers of my enemy's settlement later on and thus already built a small harbour.
Not losing any time, I erected a marketplace (later followed by two others after I had a new ship of mine bring over a couple of resources to my new colony) to expand the territory on which I am able to build. I made sure that the radius of the buildings would also encompass the area yet to be... "liberated".
Immediately I started building a few vineyards and wheat farms. By now reinforcements had arrived from Rhenus, and at last I was able to end the rest of the red player's influence on the island, albeit with some losses.
After having gained complete control of the area I tore down the buildings that remained and has passed over to my possession, as they were of no use for me and only consumed some of the taxes I earn. I also built a few more mills and bakeries, and assigned the ship so diligently having supplied my new settlement with raw materials to now carry over the goods produced there to Rhenus. And since it also harboured a small mountain with ore in it, and iron mine was soon established which was particularly welcome as one on one of my southern islands had recently become exhausted.
Lastly, since I now had more than enough space for vineyards, I tore down two of them on Delirium to make way for two more tobacco plantations, as my people all seem to be heavy smokers. In the long run this won't be enough however, and I shall have to also wrestle the red player's remaining island to the north-east under my control to expand my cigar production towards it. But this is something that shall be undertaken at some later point in time!
